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SRS Linux Service

There are many ways to startup SRS:

• Directly run srs at the trunk/objs, and need start again when system restart.
• Linux service, the init.d scirpt at srs/trunk/etc/init.d/srs, and user can add to linux service when linked to the /etc/init.d/srs then add as service /sbin/chkconfig --add srs.

The SRS release binary can be downloaded from release site, we can install as system service, see: Github: release or Mirror for China: release

Directly startup SRS

We donot need to add to linux service to directly start SRS:

cd srs/trunk &&
./etc/init.d/srs start

or

cd srs/trunk &&
./objs/srs -c conf/srs.conf

LinuxService

Install and startup SRS as linux system service:

• Build SRS: the install script will modify the INSTALL ROOT of init.d script.
• Link to init.d: link the trunk/etc/init.d/srs to /etc/init.d/srs
• Add to linux service: use /sbin/chkconfig for Centos.

Step1: Build and Install SRS

Intall SRS when build ok:

make && sudo make install

the install of make will install srs to the prefix dir, default to /usr/local/srs, which is specified by configure, for instance, ./configure --prefix=`pwd`/_release set the install dir to _release of current dir to use make install without sudo.

Step2: Link script to init.d:

sudo ln -sf \
    /usr/local/srs/etc/init.d/srs \
    /etc/init.d/srs

Step3:Add as linux service:

#centos 6
sudo /sbin/chkconfig --add srs

or

#ubuntu12
sudo update-rc.d srs defaults

Use init.d script

Get the status of SRS:

/etc/init.d/srs status

Start SRS：

/etc/init.d/srs start

Stop SRS：

/etc/init.d/srs stop

Restart SRS：

/etc/init.d/srs restart

Reload SRS：

/etc/init.d/srs reload

Install SRS-API

SRS will install api to /usr/local/srs, which is specified by configure.

The api is the api-server of SRS, which is used for SRS to callback the http api. The http callback need to open the feature --with-http-callback, and SRS use python(cherrypy) for server.py, which user can directly run.

The api-server tp provide http service, and the pages for demo of SRS including the player, encoder and the meeting demo of SRS. When api-server start, we can access http://192.168.1.170:8085, the demo of SRS. See: Usage: Demo.

Step1: Enable the demo feature:

./configure --with-hls --with-ffmpeg --with-http-callback --with-ffmpeg

Step2: Install api:

make && sudo make install-api

Start api-server:

/usr/local/srs/etc/init.d/srs-api start

See: Usage: Demo

Step3: Link api script:

sudo ln -sf \
    /usr/local/srs/etc/init.d/srs-api \
    /etc/init.d/srs-api

Step4: Add to linux service:

#centos 6
sudo /sbin/chkconfig --add srs-api

or

#ubuntu12
sudo update-rc.d srs-api defaults

Step5: Manage the SRS-api service:

Get the SRS-api status:

/etc/init.d/srs-api status

Start SRS-api：

/etc/init.d/srs-api start

Stop SRS-api：

/etc/init.d/srs-api stop

Restart SRS-api：

/etc/init.d/srs-api restart

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